The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-02-06
SCIENTIFIC TRUTH
Regarding the Functions Of
an Important Organ i
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Proprietors of "Warner's Safe Cure"
That we may emphasize and clearly
explain the relation t &c kidneys sus-
tain to the general health, and how
much is dependent upon them, we
propose, metaphorically speaking 10
take one from the human BODY, place
in the wash bowl before US, and ex-
anime it for the public benetlt.
You will imagine chat we have be-
fore us a body shaped like a bean,
smooth and glistening, about tour
inches in length, two in width and
one in thickness, It ordinarily weighs
in the adult male about five ounces,
but is somewhat lighter in the female.
A small organ? you say. But under
stand, the body OF the average size
man contains about ten quarts OF
blood, of echich erery drop passes
through these filters or se'Cers, as they
may be called, n1any times day,
as often as the heart, making a com.
plete revolution in three minutes.
From the blood they separate the
waste material, working away steadily
night and day, sleeping or waking,
tireless as the heart itself, and fully
of as much importance; removing
impurities from sixty-fye gallons of
blood each hour, or about forty-nine
barrels each day, or 9,125 hogs
heads a year! What q wonder that
the kidneys can last any length of
time under thi1 prodigious strain,
treated and neglected as they are?
We slice this delicate organ open
lengthwise with our knife and will
roughly describe its interior:
We find it to be of a reddish
brown color, soft and easily torn.
filed with hundreds of little tubes,
short and thread-like, starting from
the arteries, ending in little tuft
about midway from the outside open
ing of cavity of considerable size,
which, is called the pelvis. or, roughly
speaking, a sac, which is for the
purpose of holding the water to
further undergo purifcation before it
passes down from 1ere into the
ureters. and so on to the outside of
the body. These little tubes are
the filters which do their work auto
matically, and right here Is Where tbs
disease of the kidney first begins.
Doing the vast amount of work
which they are Obliged to, from the
slightest irregularity in our habits,
from cold, from high living, from
stinulants or thousand and one
other causes which occur every day,
they become somewhat weakened in
their nerve force.
What is the result? Congestion or
stoppage of the current of blood in
the small blood vessels surrounding
them, which become blocked; these
delicate membranes are irritated
Inflammation IS set up, then pus is
formed, which collects in the pelvis or
sac; the tubes are at first partially,
and soon are totally, unable to do
their work. The pelvic sac goes ON
distending with this corruption, pres
sing upon the blood vessels. Ali
this time, remember, the blood,
which is entering the kidneys to be
filtered, is passing through thjs terrible,
disgusting pus, for it cannot take any
other route!
Stop and think of it for mo-
ment. Do you realize the importance,
nay the vital necessity, of having the
kidneys in order? Can you expect
when they are diseased or obstructed,
no matter how little, that you can
have pure blood and escape disease?
1t would be just as reasonable to ex-
pect, if pest-house were set across
Broadway and countless thousands
were compelled to go through it's
pestilential doors, and escape from
contagion and disease, as for one
to expect the blood to escape pollution
when constantly running through o
diseased kidney.
Now, what is the result2 Why, |
that the blood takes up and deposits |
this poison as it sweeps along into |
every organ, into every inch of muscle, |
tissue, flesh and bone, from your |
head: to your feet. And whenever, |
from hereditary influence or otherwise, |
some part of the body is weaker
than another, a countless train of dis
eases is established, such as con-
sumption in weak lungs, dyspepsia,
where there is a delicate stomach:
nervousness, insanity. paralysis OF
heart disease in those who have weak
nerges.
The heart must soon feel the effects OF
the poison, as 1t requires pure blood to
keep it tn right action. 1t increases it's
stroke in number and force TO com
pensate for the natural stimulus want
ing, in its endeavor to crowd the
impure blood through this obstruc-
ton, causing pain, palpitation, or an
out-of-breath feeling. Uuratural as
this forced labor is, the heart must
soon falter, becoming weaker and
weaker until one day it suddenly
stops, and death from apparent
" heart disease" is the verdict.
BUt the medical rrofass;.,. II |